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Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F111/391, f 8
Title:: Poster Conveying a Message from the Amir of Afghanistan to the Afghan People
Scope & Content:: Poster conveying a message from the Amir of Afghanistan [Emir of Afghanistan], Abdur Rahman Khan, to the Afghan people. In the text, which is written in Farsi, the Amir quotes certain verses from the Quran (Q 14:7 and Q 4:59) to stress the importance of being grateful and obedient to those in au...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English and Farsi
Date Range:: 29 Oct 1898-20 Nov 1899
Extent:: 1 poster

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F111/391, f 9
Title:: Poster Conveying a Message from the Amir of Afghanistan to the Afghan People
Scope & Content:: Poster conveying a message from the Amir of Afghanistan [Emir of Afghanistan], Abdur Rahman Khan, to the Afghan people. In the text, which is written in Farsi, the Amir quotes certain verses from the Quran (Q 14:7 and Q 4:59) to stress the importance of being grateful and obedient to those in au...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English and Farsi
Date Range:: 29 Oct 1898-20 Nov 1899
Extent:: 1 poster

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F111/391, f 10
Title:: Poster Conveying a Message from the Amir of Afghanistan to the Afghan People
Scope & Content:: Poster conveying a message from the Amir of Afghanistan [Emir of Afghanistan], Abdur Rahman Khan, to the Afghan people. In the text, which is written in Farsi, the Amir quotes certain verses from the Quran (Q 14:7 and Q 4:59) to stress the importance of being grateful and obedient to those in au...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English and Farsi
Date Range:: 29 Oct 1898-20 Nov 1899
Extent:: 1 poster

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F111/391, f 12
Title:: Poster Conveying a Message from the Amir of Afghanistan to the Afghan People
Scope & Content:: Poster conveying a message from the Amir of Afghanistan [Emir of Afghanistan], Abdur Rahman Khan, to the Afghan people. In the text, which is written in Farsi, the Amir quotes certain verses from the Quran (Q 14:7 and Q 4:59) to stress the importance of being grateful and obedient to those in au...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Farsi
Date Range:: 29 Oct 1898-20 Nov 1899
Extent:: 1 poster

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur G45/10
Title:: ‘My Scrap Book volume V’. Artist: Augustus Fortunatus Bellasis (1822–1872)
Scope & Content:: Genre & Subject Matter As well as four photographs, stamps, seals, printed documents, handwritten texts, maps and letters, this album contains fifty-one pencil, watercolour or pen and ink drawings; eight created while Augustus Fortunatis Bellasis was Collector and Magistrate at Hyderabad (S...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English and Farsi
Date Range:: 1855-1856
Extent:: 135 folios, including 111 items (4 letters; 5 folios of seals; 1 folio of stamps; 1 printed document; 5 folios of watercolour illustrations of tiles; 1 tracing of a pattern for embroidery; 2 watercolour architectural illustrations of decorated doorways; 4 photographs; 2 handwritten texts; 51 watercolour, pencil or pen and ink drawings; 4 maps, printed; 31 etchings) inserted or pasted into a half bound leather and marbled paper volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 2361
Title:: A collection of fourteen treatises on music theory in Arabic and Persian
Scope & Content:: A collection of fourteen treatises on music theory in Arabic and Persian, copied for Shāh Qubād ibn ‘Abd al-Jalīl al-Ḥārithī al-Badakhshī (شاه قباد بن عبد الجليل الحارثي البدخشي, d. Delhi, 1083/1672-3) who by the time of the volume's compilation held the title Dīyānat Khān (ديانتخان). Dīyānat ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:: 1073-1075
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+269+iv

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 2361, ff 2r-15r
Title:: Risālah dar jamʿ-i maqālāt-i fuquhāʾ dar bāb shanīdan-i alḥān رساله در جمع مقالات فقهاء در باب شنيدن الحان Riz̤avī, Muḥammad ibn Jalāl رضوى، محمد ابن جلال
Scope & Content:: A treatise in Persian on the lawfulness of music, written by Muḥammad ibn Jalāl Riz̤avī (محمد بن جلال رضوى), in 1028/1618-19 (f. 2v, line 11). The text, also entitled Risālah-yi dar aqwāl-i fuqahāʼ dar samāʻ-i alḥān (رساله در اقوال فقهاء در سماع الحان, f. 2r), discusses the opinions of the great...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Farsi and Persian
Date Range:: ca 1073
Extent:: Ff. 2r-15r

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 2361, ff 15r-17v
Title:: Risālah-'i masīḥī dar kayfīyat va haqīqat-i samāʿ va ibāḥatān رساله مسيحي در كيفيت وحقيقت سماع واباحتان Ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, ʿAbd al-Jalīl ابن عبد الرحمن، عبد الجليل
Scope & Content:: A tract in Persian on the lawfulness of sacred music and on terms used by Sufis. It was entitled Masīḥī in honour of the physician and poet Hakīm Sadrā ibn Hakīm Fakhr al-Dīn Shīrazī (حكيم سدرا بن حكيم فخر الدين شيرازي, d. 1061/1650-51), who came to India in c. 1603 and was awarded the title Mas...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Farsi and Persian
Date Range:: 17 Ṣafar 1073
Extent:: Ff. 15r-17v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 2361, ff 157r-164r
Title:: Mūsīqī-yi ḥikmat-i ʿAlāʾī موسيقي حكمت علائي Avicenna ابن سينا
Scope & Content:: Section on music from the Persian summary of his own philosophical teachings by Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037), written for the Kākūyid amir ʿAlāʾ al-Dawlah Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn Rustam Dushmanziyār (...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Farsi and Persian
Date Range:: Jumādá II 1073
Extent:: Ff. 157r-164r

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 2361, ff 240v-246r
Title:: Kashf al-awtār كشف الأوتار Bukhārī, Qāsim ibn Dūst ʻAlī بخاري، قاسم ابن دوست علي
Scope & Content:: A Persian treatise on the fretting of musical instruments, by Qāsim ibn Dūst ʿAlī Bukhārī (قاسم ابن دوست علي بخارى). The present copy was completed by the scribe Muḥammad Amīn in Delhi on 19 Rabīʿ II 1075/9 October 1664 ( see colophon, f. 246r, lines 7-9). A diagram in red ink labelled in Per...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Farsi and Persian
Date Range:: 19 Rabīʿ II 1075
Extent:: Ff. 240v-246r

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